Donald Faison Has the Best Idea Ever
Donald Faison is one of the stars of Scrubs (which I’m not ashamed to say I very much enjoy) and a genuinely funny dude. He is also am insane hardcore Star Wars nerd, as evidenced by his recent appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he says he’s seen Empire Strikes Back over 300 times. That’s not the important bit. The important bit is when he pitches The Chronicles of Lando Calrissian, starring himself as Lando, running around the galaxy and being awesome. Faison is so into the idea he made a little Lego stop-motion clip of the show to pitch to George Lucas — that’s a shot of it above. He makes all the sound effects, too; watch the whole interview here and be awed. This is all so awesome I can barely stand it.
Seriously. God only knows where Lucas is on the live-action Star Wars TV series, and I am 100% certain that whatever he ends up with won’t be half as good as The Chronicles of Lando. Seriously, George — just send a check $30 million to Faison, and let’s make this thing happen. (Via Star Wars blog)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.